Department News & Events - 2012

Providing patients with excellence in direct esthetic restorations can be quite challenging and time consuming in daily clinical practice. By integrating a modern approach to caries management with the scientific advances in dental adhesives and restorative materials, dental professionals can provide conservative, functional and esthetic treatment to fit the individual needs of patients.

The purpose of this course is to present direct esthetic restorative options based on a minimally invasive approach. Principles, materials and clinical techniques will be outlined to help the dentist and the team to achieve excellent esthetics, function and affordable solutions while preserving natural tooth structure./li>

December 13, 2012

Operative Dentistry Departmental Winter Party
Dr. Patty Meredith and her husband Terry hosted the annual Departmental Winter Party at their home. The traditional feast and gift exchange was followed by karaoke. Fortunately, no recordings are available.

College of Dentistry Hosts Eleven Columbus Junction Middle School Students Participating in Project Hope
The College of Dentistry was pleased to provide a simulation experience for eleven Columbus Junction middle school students who are participants of a career education pipeline program for the health sciences called Project HOPE. The students visited the College of Dentistry on Thursday, April 12, 2012, and received information about dentistry and instructions on waxing from Dr. Marcela Hernandez, Department of Operative Dentistry, before spending time in the Bench Lab getting hands-on experience. Third-year dental students, Chelsea Twohig, HSDA chair, and Jeremy Grabouski; second-year students, Keira Olson, Katie Anfinsen, and Matthew Smith; and first-year students, Ryan Humbert and Tiffanie Smith Royse, assisted Dr. Hernandez with instruction and supervision during the exercise. The group was later given a tour of the building by third-year students, Ryan Teahen and Matt French.(Pictured: Chelsea Twohig (D3) demonstrates one of the first steps of waxing.)

Dr. Laurie St-Pierre, a resident in the Department of Operative Dentistry, has received the 2012 Carl Svare Dental and Graduate Student Research Award for her work with biomaterials.

The award was established by Dr. Svare’s widow, Ms. Marlys Svare, and her family to honor her husband and his legacy.

Dr. Svare was a member of the Prosthodontics department and the Dows Institute for Dental Research. His expertise, which was internationally recognized, provided a better understanding of dental restorative materials. Dr. Svare died suddenly in February 1986 at the age of 52.

Dr. St-Pierre’s Local AADR Research Day presentation, “Effect of Finishing and Polishing Direction on the Marginal Adaptation of Resin-Based Composite Restorations in Vitro” also won first place in the Graduate Dental Specialty Award in Operative Dentistry.

The American Board of Operative Dentistry awarded 3 certificates this year at its annual meeting last Wednesday. All three new members are graduates of the University of Iowa, Operative Graduate Program.

Bow was unable to make it to the meeting. But So Ran and Marcela are pictured here with the other graduates of the University of Iowa, Operative Graduate Program that attended the meeting. (Pictured: Justine Kolker, So Ran Kwon, Jeff Nordin, Mike Meharry, Kim Diefenderfer, and Marcela Hernandez.)

February 29, 2012

Dr. Justine Kolker was appointed as the Vice-President of the American Board of Operative Dentistry. (Pictured: Dr. Justine Kolker)

February 14, 2012

Dr. Justine Kolker presided over the local AADR Research Day activities for the second year in a row. The banquet and awards ceremony was held this Valentine’s Day. (Pictured: Dr. Justine Kolker, president, Iowa Section of AADR, and Dr. Clark Stanford, associate dean for research. )